Hence, the Spanish language will serve all ordinary purposes among the Latin races who have made their own the vast continent that stretches from Panama to Tierra del Fuego.
So the girl's super-active brain was puzzled by De Sylva's rendering of his military friend's remarks.

With the vaguest knowledge of what was actually said, she suspected that San Benavides had opposed the very project which, according to the President, he favored.

She had caught the name of the relief vessel, the words _bote_, "boat," _las doce_, "twelve o'clock," _a bordo de buque_, "on board the ship," and others which did not figure in the translation.

She wondered why.
The long day wore slowly.

The heat was intense.